Affix function | number of borrowed affixes |
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Information and examples are from Boretzky (1994) and Boretzky and Igla (1991). Kalderash Romani has also borrowed affixes from Romanian and from various Slavic languages.
2 nominalizers (originally singular‑plural)
‑imos ‘nominalizer’, e.g. barvalimos ‘richness’
‑imata ‘nominalizer’, e.g. marimata ‘brawl’ (Boretzky and Igla 1991: 16)
3 non-interrelated suffixes
‑to ‘ordinal number formation’, e.g. štár‑to ‘the fourth’ (Boretzky 1994: 93)
‑icko, ‑icka ‘adjectivizer for languages and places’, e.g. lovaricka ‘in Lovari’, sogodicko ‘in [various] languages’ (Boretzky and Igla 1991: 12)
‑icî ‘diminutive’, e.g. kotoricí ‘little piece’ (Boretzky and Igla 1991: 12)